Holland & Knight's Business Section includes more than 800 lawyers and other professionals in four major areas –Corporate Transactions, Financial Services, Tax/Executive Compensation and Benefits, and Private Wealth Services. We advise local, national and international clients on a broad range of areas, including buy-side and sellside M&A transactions, securities offerings, financial transactions, tax strategies, and wealth preservation and transfer strategies.
Business Section highlights include:
• Holland & Knight received national first-tier rankings in the 2025 Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" guide in 11 practice areas, in addition to 100 metropolitan first-tier rankings across 24 of its U.S. offices (November 2024)
• The Legal 500 Latin America recognized Holland & Knight in the areas of Latin America Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, City Leaders – Miami, Corporate/M&A, International Arbitration, and Projects and Energy in its 2025 edition. It also recognized the firm in the areas of Colombia Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution – Arbitration, Dispute Resolution –Litigation, Energy and Natural Resources, Environment, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Public Law and Tax. The firm was also recognized in Mexico Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, City Focus – Monterrey, Corporate/M&A, Dispute Resolution – Arbitration, Energy and Natural Resources, Intellectual Property, International Trade and Customs, Projects and Infrastructure, Real Estate, Tax, and Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT). In addition, 30 attorneys received recognitions (October 2024).
• Latin Lawyer 250 recognized Holland & Knight as one of Latin America's leading law firms worldwide for 2025. A total of 39 attorneys were recognized for their legal skills. The guide noted the firm has "built out its core offering" which has "helped it land a considerable amount of cross-border financing mandates in Latin America." The firm's Latin America Practice is recognized for work in the U.S., Mexico, Colombia and across borders in the areas of Arbitration, Banking and Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A and Litigation. (August 2024).
• The 2025 Chambers Latin America guide recognized 27 business attorneys among Latin America's best advisors (August 2024).
• Best Lawyers in America selected 265 business lawyers for its 2025 guide and named 18 business attorneys as a "Lawyer of the Year" in their respective practice areas (August 2024).
• 30 Holland & Knight attorneys were named leading advisers to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families in the 2024 Chambers High Net Worth guide. Four attorneys were ranked in the Globalwide: Private Aircraft category and 26 were recognized for Private Wealth Law, Private Wealth Disputes and Family Offices & Funds Structuring In addition, the firm's Private Wealth Law practice was ranked Band 1 in Florida, Massachusetts, Oregon and Tennessee; Private Wealth DisputesCalifornia and Private Aircraft-Global-wide. The firm also ranked Band 2 in Private Wealth Law-USA, Private Wealth Disputes-Florida and Family Offices & Funds Structuring-USA; Band 3 for Private Wealth Law in Texas; and Band 5 for Private Wealth Law in New York (July 2024).
• Holland & Knight earned national top-tier ranking in M&A/Corporate and Commercial – M&A: MiddleMarket (sub $500M) and Transport: Aviation and Air Travel – Finance in The Legal 500 United States 2024 guide. In addition, the firm was recommended in a number of M&A/corporate, tax and finance practices (June 2024).
• A total of 91 business lawyers were listed in the 2024 Chambers USA guide (June 2024).
• The 2024 Chambers Global – The World's Leading Lawyers for Business guide named Holland & Knight among the world's leading firms in Global Markets – Asset Finance and Shipping: Finance; USA – Banking & Finance and Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional); Latin America-wide – Banking & Finance; Colombia – Banking & Finance and Corporate/M&A; Mexico – Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A, Energy & Natural Resources, and Tax: Non-Contentious; and Cuba – General Business Law; International Firms. Multiple lawyers also were chosen for individual rankings, including in Global Markets – Asset Finance and Shipping: Finance; Latin America-wide – Banking & Finance and Project Finance; Colombia – Banking & Finance, Corporate/M&A, Capital Markets, Energy &
Natural Resources, and Tax; Liberia – Shipping; Marshall Islands – General Business Law; Mexico –Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Corporate/M&A, Energy & Natural Resources, Projects and Tax: Non-Contentious; and USA – Banking & Finance, Derivatives, Energy: Oil & Gas (Transactional), Outsourcing and Shipping (February 2024).
• Two London-based attorneys were recognized in the area of Aviation Law in the 2022 The Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom guide (June 2021).
• Who's Who Legal: Thought Leaders Global Elite 2021 recognized Anita Mosner (Aviation –Regulatory) and John Pritchard (Aviation – Finance) as Thought Leaders in Aviation (December 2020).
• The firm's Private Wealth Services Group was named USA Private Client Team of the Year for the East Coast by the 2020 Chambers High Net Worth guide (October 2020).